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Series
Criterion collection volume 706
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alice Guy-Blaché (French, 1873-1968), the world's first woman film director, made films for Gaumont in Paris (1896-1907), then had her own studio, the Solax Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey (1910-1914). After Solax ceased production, she became a director for hire and went to work for The International Film Service, owned by William Randolph Hearst. The plot of The Ocean Waif adheres closely to the Hearst agenda: a romantic story, plenty of pathos...
4) The entity
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When hardworking single mother Carla Moran is repeatedly attacked by an assailant she cannot see she finally turns to a parapsychology team for help.
5) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Gelsomina is sold for a few coins by her very poor mother to Zampano, a fairground wrestler. She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampano illtreats her. She meets "The Fool", a funambulist. She feels like going with him, but he puts confusion in her mind by pointing out that perhaps Zampano is in fact in love with her.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the taut thriller Alice, a woman, is pushed to the breaking point by her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Simon. While on vacation with two close girlfriends, Alice rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective. Slowly, she starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. But Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering and, once unleashed, it tests Alice's strength, her courage, and the bonds of...
7) La strada
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mr.", Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
11) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With her first and only feature film--a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in--Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loder), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and...
12) Wanda
Series
Criterion collection volume 965
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her first and only feature film--a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in--Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loder), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 520
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
In a working-class neighborhood, in Malmo, Sweden in the early 1900s, live Maria and her husband Sigfrid. Siggie strong and dependable manual laborer who clearly loves and respects his wife, but due to his prodigious philandering and alcohol consumption theirs is--despite a brood of seven--a strained marriage. When Maria attempts to sell a camera they won in a raffle, the curious shopkeeper and photographer Sebastian Pedersen instead teaches her how...
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